The good news is that the country is building hundreds of new power plants to supply all the electricity that will be needed for the electric vehicle fleet...
Oops!
All those billions of dollars wasted!
I suppose there will be many parts still salvagable.
The problem with the battery was supposed to have been discovered during project development. Right?
It was a design flaw.
I suspect some within project development will end of being ‘re-assigned’ to other, less crucial jobs.
EV manufacters from Japan and Europe are probably giving each other a High Five, celebrating their good fortune.
Union-made no doubt—"Look for the Union label".
Batteries are dangerous.
Anyone who has dealt with big electric vehicles (like fork trucks) for any length of time has stories.
The old lead acid batteries were fairly safe. They got to the point where you could kill the battery, but not burn the plant down.
The new Lithium ones are very good, but every once in a while turn into a torch. Enough that the first generation of Li for truck batteries were put in a special area just in case.
I do wonder how the EV’s meet residential fire code.
GM messed up - they didn’t get Uncle Sap to grant them immunity from lawsuits before putting out this deathtrap.
If they had, they could have called it the “Jab.”
If GM goes completely electric, they’ll go completely out of business.
10 fires out of how many cars? And a recall.
When are they going to recall the covid vaccines?
So, where are these replacement batteries being made one wonders?
Ping.
I once tried to replace the battery in a Kindle Fire tablet. I was a bit too cavalier with the battery removal which tore the cover of the battery and it burst into flames. I ran outside and dropped it and let it burn itself out. It was one of those soft bag-type batteries. They cannot be punctured or exposed to air, or they go up in flames.
How is this worse than the people who already were incinerated by their Teslas, or drowned because the Tesla’s door locks aren’t waterproof?
So, to summarize:
1) Don’t park this puppy within 100’ of your place, or next to the Mercedes in the driveway
2) Have a long extension cord to charge it each night………be careful if it’s raining or snowing
3) Don’t charge it above 90%
4) Don’t run it below 70 miles left on the charge
- The Bolt has a range of 260 miles at best so you basically have been reduced now to a max of 150-175 miles drive mileage, most likely much lower
- Basically, you cannot let it run below 30% charge, or charge it more than 90 %
- The charge range is 30-90%, or 60% x 260 miles = 156 miles
5) No idea when they can obtain replacement batteries
6) $2B to replace all batteries
7) By 2035, all new cars and passenger trucks sold in California to be zero-emission vehicles......right
GM has recommended that Bolt owners park their vehicles outside...
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...away from the house, lawn, trees, and any other combustable material.
Can they convert by adding a combustible engine?
GM will recover from this. All they have to do is offer free COVID shits with every purchase.
Sounds like a GM problem not a Tesla problem. GM is from the Electric car standard.
If they ban gasoline vehicles (which they have shown very indication that they would like to do) it won’t really matter if EV shoppers are “scared” since it will be that or nothing (as far as new vehicles go - obviously used vehicles will be around for a long time).
Exploding golf carts.
Americans do NOT want the Chevy Dolt, or any other electric car!!!!
Solar, wind, and batteries cannot power a 21st century civilization! (Look at California!) Back to the drawing board!!!!
Leave it to Government Motors and the UAW to kill the oversized golf kart experiment.